One essay in this collection argues that "what the world needs is a balance of economic and political power so that no party... no government is omnipotent." Another essay in this collection relates the author's conversations with a man who was pseudonymized as "Chalmers" by Christopher Isherwood, and that essay concludes that "the interests of [those] who care for the value of freedom must be identified with those of the many who need bread." The author of that essay in this collection, who had previously published a work entitled Forward From Liberalism, was the poet Stephen Spender. Yet another work in this collection, which is divided into two sections entitled "The Initiates," and "Worshippers from Afar," is partly concerned with the trial of John Ross, and was written by Richard Wright. Probably the most famous essay in this collection begins "A faith is not acquired by reasoning," and was written by a man
One essay in this collection argues that "what the world needs is a balance of economic and political power so that no party... no government is omnipotent." Another essay in this collection relates the author's conversations with a man who was pseudonymized as "Chalmers" by Christopher Isherwood, and that essay concludes that "the interests of [those] who care for the value of freedom must be identified with those of the many who need bread." The author of that essay in this collection, who had previously published a work entitled Forward From Liberalism, was the poet Stephen Spender. Yet another work in this collection, which is divided into two sections entitled "The Initiates," and "Worshippers from Afar," is partly concerned with the trial of John Ross, and was written by Richard Wright. Probably the most famous essay in this collection begins "A faith is not acquired by reasoning," and was written by a man who had planned to write a book called The Soviet Land through Bourgeois Eyes, and later wrote a work about two different ways of coping with the world, "The Yogi and the Commissar." Collected and edited by Richard Crossman and Arthur Koestler, for ten points, identify this collection of essays detailing various intellectuals' disillusion with communism.
One essay in this collection argues that "what the world needs is a balance of economic and political power so that no party... no government is omnipotent."
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